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Bacon: Stop The Raids In The First 100 Days

Znet Article, October, 28 2008 David Bacon
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The first of the 388 workers arrested in the immigration raid on the Agriprocessors meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa, were deported in mid-October, having spent five months in federal prison. Their crime? Giving a bad Social Security number to...

Bacon: How Do You Say Justice in Mixteco?

Zmag Article, October, 01 2008 David Bacon
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David Bacon on providing legal services for immigrants.

Bacon: Original Workers Overcome Divisions After Mississippi Raid

Znet Article, September, 09 2008 David Bacon
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In the recent raid of the Howard Industries electrical plant in Laurel, Mississippi, 481 workers have been detained for almost two weeks in Jena, Louisiana. Neither they nor their attorneys know when they will be formally charged, deported or rele...

Bacon: Did a Mississippi Raid Protect Rightwing Politicians?

Znet Article, September, 01 2008 David Bacon
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On August 25, immigration agents swooped down on Howard Industries, a Mississippi electrical equipment factory, taking 481 workers to a privately-run detention center in Jena, Louisiana. A hundred and six women were also arrested at the plant, and...

Bacon: How Do You Say Justice in Mixteco?

Znet Article, June, 11 2008 David Bacon
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Erasto Vasquez was surprised to see a forklift appear one morning outside his trailer near the corner of East and Springfield, two small rural roads deep in the grapevines, ten miles southwest of Fresno. He and his neighbors pleaded with the drive...

Bacon: Mississippi’s SB 2988

Zmag Article, June, 02 2008 David Bacon
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On March 17 Mississippi Governor Hayley Barbour signed the farthest-reaching employer sanctions law of any on the books in the U.S. The Mississippi bill, SB 2988, requires employers to use an electronic system called E-Verify.

Bacon: May Day: "We Are Workers, Not Criminals"

Znet Article, May, 02 2008 David Bacon
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In the big immigrant marches that swept the country on May Day in 2006 and 2007, one sign said it all: "We are Workers, not Criminals!" Often it was held in the calloused hands of men and women who looked as though they'd just come from work in a...

Bacon: Hollywood Comes to Blows with Upton Sinclair

Zmag Article, May, 01 2008 David Bacon
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Writing us out of a movie made from "Oil!" expropriated one of the most important works of our history.

Bacon: In Mississippi, Work Is Now a Felony for Undocumented Immigrants

Znet Article, April, 22 2008 David Bacon
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On March 17, Mississippi Governor Hayley Barbour signed into law the farthest-reaching employer sanctions law of any on the books in the US. Employer sanctions is a shorthand name for laws that prohibit employers from hiring immigrants who don't h...

Bacon: Black and Brown Together

Znet Article, March, 15 2008 David Bacon
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In Mississippi, African American leaders are the foremost champions of the state's growing Latino immigrant population. Some day soon, they hope, the new alliance will transform the state's politics.

Bacon: Right to Strike Imperiled in Cananea

Znet Article, January, 30 2008 David Bacon
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The Mexican city of Cananea, site of one of the world's largest copper mines, is moving toward a virtual state of siege after fighting swept through the streets between police and strikers more than a week ago. The attack on the Mexican miners' un...

Bacon: The political economy of migration

Znet Article, January, 13 2008 David Bacon
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In December 2005, Wisconsin Congressman James Sensenbrenner convinced his Republican colleagues (and to their shame, 35 Democrats) to pass one of the most repressive immigration proposals of the last hundred years. His bill, HR 4437, would have ma...

Bacon: Iraqi Workers Movement

Audio, October, 31 2007 David Bacon
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David Bacon about privatization of the Iraqi economy and the response to this of the trade union and workers movement. Organized by Stop War.ca Producer: Chris Spannos/Redeye redeye@vcn.bc.ca